And consumers aren't fooled
when big food companies cobble together «healthier» choices that contain a laundry list of unpronounceable ingredients.
Not exact matches
China is Yum Brand's
biggest market, and the
company only recently started to recover from another
food scandal in 2012,
when a media report alleged two KFC suppliers were pumping chickens full of growth hormones and an excessive amount of antibiotics.
The existential crisis facing the legacy
food giants becomes even more pronounced
when you consider a
company like Hain Celestial — which, with its $ 2.2 billion in sales last year, is clearly on the path to
Big itself.
One of the more candid executives
when it comes to addressing
Big Food's woes, Morrison tells Fortune that she knew she had to «shift the center of gravity at Campbell»
when she took over the
company in 2011.
Having worked in the
food industry for about 15 years, these
companies are
big, bureaucratic and have trouble getting out of their own way
when it comes to innovation, research and development.
Some may see the SmartLabel initiative as
big food companies» way of deterring mandatory labeling, but more importantly this can be seen as a
big step forward
when it comes to greater transparency.
When «
Big Food» became «bad food,» clean label grew from trend to consumer norm very quickly and has dramatically influenced the way companies market and sell foods and dietary suppleme
Food» became «bad
food,» clean label grew from trend to consumer norm very quickly and has dramatically influenced the way companies market and sell foods and dietary suppleme
food,» clean label grew from trend to consumer norm very quickly and has dramatically influenced the way
companies market and sell
foods and dietary supplements.
That kind of investigative journalistic experience comes in very handy
when taking on the explosive topic he addresses today: are
big food service management
companies (FSMC's) like Chartwells, Aramark and Sodexo passing on to school districts — as required by law — the millions of dollars in rebates and «volume discounts» they receive from
food manufacturers like Kellogg's, Pepperidge Farm and others?
Trans fat — a
big source of which is partially hydrogenated vegetable oils — has been the
food villain of choice since 2006,
when the FDA required
companies to include trans fat content on
food labels.
Trans fat was added later,
when the overwhelming evidence for its adverse health effects could no longer be suppressed by the
big food companies.
When it was discovered that MSG enhances
food cravings, all of the
food chains and
big companies saw a
big profit.
When the owners of the Lotus Cat
Food Company, who manufacture an exotic, high priced type of kitty chow, run short of cash, they find themselves in
big trouble with their suppliers.
Thus,
when Billy stumbles upon the idea of applying for an internship at a
Big Search Engine
Company, it doesn't take much convincing for Nick to join him, and soon enough they arrive in California to enter «The Garden of Eden,» as one of them describes it: the gorgeous campus of the
Big Search Engine
Company, where
food is free and napping is encouraged.
But
when Phil takes a job with an organic dog
food company and moves the family to California, Marmaduke discovers that he doesn't fit in with the neighborhood's cool dogs, and must instead team up with a trio of unpopular mutts (voiced by Emma Stone, Steve Coogan and Christopher Mintz - Plasse) in order to win the affection of a Collie named Jezebel and become the
big dog on the block.
Essentially the
big lesson here is that
when a
company liquidates, the bondholders are repaid before the shareholders are; because of this, bonds are known as «senior securities» while stocks are considered more of a «junior security» — this seniority I'm talking about refers to how far down the
food chain the securityholder is
when it comes to repayment.
Having worked in the
food industry for about 15 years, these
companies are
big, bureaucratic and have trouble getting out of their own way
when it comes to innovation, research and development.
(This is also why it's hard to say a
food is «good» or «bad» — you never know
when a smaller
company will be sold to a
bigger one and the
food quality will change.)